Warmer in the moho

[Jewellbags]

Just came back from a few nights in the moho - lovely and snug 24/7 . Came home to my decent house - bloody freezing u too this evening when it came back up to temperature . Should have stayed away

 

[Lenny HB]

Motorhome at 18° feels warm, house at the same temperature is bl**dy freezing.

You need to fit a smart thermostat like a Nest to the house. We have one and I turn the heating on a day before we get home and arrive back to a nice warm house.

 

[Boringfrog]

18° in the van, chucking it down outside, and sitting in t shirt and bare feet, oil filled radiator ticking over nicely.

 

[ManTheVan]

Motorhome at 18° feels warm, house at the same temperature is bl**dy freezing.

You need to fit a smart thermostat like a Nest to the house. We have one and I turn the heating on a day before we get home and arrive back to a nice warm house.

You’re so right! No idea why, but it’s the truth.

Nest has saved us a pile of money over the past 18 months. It’s so amazing to be able to turn on the heating from afar too.

 

[Bognor Saint]

Motorhome at 18° feels warm, house at the same temperature is bl**dy freezing.

You need to fit a smart thermostat like a Nest to the house. We have one and I turn the heating on a day before we get home and arrive back to a nice warm house.

We used to have a smart thermostat years ago, it was called "Dad". The day before we returned home I used to phone and say "Dad, turn the heating on" and he would go around and switch it on and also put milk in the fridge.

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[TinaLes]

You might think I am totally MAD, the wife does, but on returning home in winter usualy late afternoon/evening after a trip out , I run in the house, emptying the van as much as needed, whack up the house heating thermostat to 24 degrees, feed the cat, then continue to sleep in the van overnight on the drive.
I have my own little NEST, its called a Carthago
I love my vanStill dont know why I get out of it, less to clean, less hoovering, and no bill are posted.
LES

 

[Reallyretired]

We phone our neighbour to pop in and turn on the heating.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Just trying to figure out why you would turn the heating off if only away for a few nights.

Especially in winter with the chance of a snap freeze

 

[carolyn]

We always leave our heating to come on twice a day for a couple of hours , just on low, when we’re away in winter. We forgot when away skiing one year, fortunately no frozen pipes but it took 2 days to warm the place up. Never again!

 

[Boris7]

Honeywell home, control the heating from your phone.

Set the temp low when away to stop freezing but save money, turn up when 2 hours from home.

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[Richard n Ann]

I turn our heating down to 12c when away, it can be baltic when we get home but the A/C has the living room toasty in about 15 mins.

 

[Steve N Tracy]

We have a Hive system and just turn the heating down a couple of degrees if away for a few days in winter, in a brick built house once the internal walls cool down I reckon you use more gas warming them back up then you do if you turn the heating down too low.

 

[68c]

I live in the south but came home after a two week stint away in the winter and found the toilet bowl cracked and lying on its side. I did not have central heating then and had a hard cold spell. The toilet had frozen of course, I always poured salt down the bowl when away in winter after that. Fortunately I was young and single at the time so no major problem, no nagging.

 

[Boringfrog]

Are burst pipes (at home) not a thing of the past?

 

[68c]

Are burst pipes (at home) not a thing of the past?

Why do you think that?

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[Boringfrog]

Why do you think that?

My Grandmothers house used to have burst water pipes, but then it didn't have double glazing, loft insulation, wall insulation, central heating. When is a house today gonna get cold enough inside for pipes to freeze?

 

[EuroTrotters]

We are not allowed out to play.

so settled for the log cabin

 

[Shrimp]

18° in the van, chucking it down outside, and sitting in t shirt and bare feet, oil filled radiator ticking over nicely.

Ditto, oil filled rad keeps us nice & warm but we do have a ‘tube’ heater (greenhouse type) in the front near the pedals it just catches the colder draughts coming in!

 

[Garfields]

My Grandmothers house used to have burst water pipes, but then it didn't have double glazing, loft insulation, wall insulation, central heating. When is a house today gonna get cold enough inside for pipes to freeze?

Can still happen surprisingly often
Most winters there are still proper cold snaps that will cause issues
Some modern houses can have issues as there is so much insulation very little heat gets to the loft space etc and things can freeze up there
Also when condensing boilers were first being installed the drains were often not protected from frost and then if cold enough would freeze and then heating would shut down

 

[autorouter]

We have the Wiser system, made by Drayton, which also has a phone app and can be controlled remotely. I'd like to say I chose it after exhaustive research and testing, but in reality I got it because it was the one sold by the local Screwfix. It works really well. I don't like telling everyone how good it is because the last time I did that I got the job of installing one in the daughter's house as well

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[Lenny HB]

Are burst pipes (at home) not a thing of the past?

Depends on what wally installed them.
Our first year in this house (this was in the past 1986), there was a cold snap in November, the pipes to the bedroom rads froze. It's a Chalet house and the upstairs bedrooms are in the roof space, the pipes had been run in the roofspace behind the bedroom walls and no insulation on them.

 

[WillH]

I don't turn my heating off, at all, year round. If, in the summer, it's warmer then it doesn't come on. When we are away there is peace of mind knowing that the house will be warm when we return.

 

[Nasher]

Might be worth checking your house insurance, mine requires it to be kept at a minimum of 12 degrees when away.....

 

[Lenny HB]

I don't turn my heating off, at all, year round. If, in the summer, it's warmer then it doesn't come on. When we are away there is peace of mind knowing that the house will be warm when we return.

That sounds expensive, in our case that would be leaving it on for 15 to 20 weeks over the year when we are not there, I just have my Eco setting on 12 & turn it back on full a day or so before we get back.

 

[spitfire]

We are not allowed out to play.

so settled for the log cabin

Wow that is beautiful!

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[WillH]

That sounds expensive, in our case that would be leaving it on for 15 to 20 weeks over the year when we are not there, I just have my Eco setting on 12 & turn it back on full a day or so before we get back.

It's not really, though of course it costs a little more. We don't have high settings and we are away for 12 weeks a year. Where we are there are sub-zero temperatures for a couple of months a year so it's easier to leave everything on as normal year round.

 

[TinaLes]

Just trying to figure out why you would turn the heating off if only away for a few nights.

Especially in winter with the chance of a snap freeze

We leave the home heating on 24/7 whilst away, but the room stat is set to 15 degrees, which eliminates the risk of anything freezing up, including Bobby the Cat.
However it takes some time to get the house as warm as the van feels, so being a true scot, um nae wastin any stored heat in the van, ken?, so I stay in the van on the drive the first night home.

OH misses her cat too much when away, yet cusses it all day when home so she normally goes straight back into her cold bedroom on her own, and me staying in the van, means I dont get cold feet on my back.

By the morning when its warm enough for me to re-enter the house, then its Bacon Rolls, whilst I watch the washing machine, probably on its second load by then, and I slowly acclimatise myself to the fact that we are home again, and plan the next trip.

LES

 

[bigwood]

My father took up the offer of gas central heating when North Sea Gas was trialed in our village because he said it was warmer in the car, a mk1 Cortina Estate. The house was four storey stone built at time of the battle of Waterloo.
I laboured for a plumber in the early seventies for a short time and he showed me how to wipe a lead pipe after a frost burst. A long lost skill only known to older plumbers.

 

[Reusables]

Our heating when it was working is set on 16.5 all year round..never turn it off.dosent cost anymore as in the summer the thermostat didn't fire up the boiler ..if we go away in the winter we just knock the thermostat down to about 12 degrees....strange but I love heat but don't like central heating on too hot as it affects my nose and breathing..
Quite happily sit in 30 odd degrees in Spain tho with no worries

 

[mitzimad]

Burst pipes are,at least in London housing standards have improve immensely in the last 20 years only get the odd outside tap or old pipework in what was the outdoor loo obviously be different up north due to poorer standards

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